While most kids were busy thinking about Barbies and video games, Leah Fox was busy building a business plan. Now the ripe age of 14, Leah knew the power of an insulin pump early on, and she wanted to make sure that other kids had a chance to experience the same freedom. With a passion for beading, she started her own company a few years ago, called Dragonfly Jewelry, to help kids with diabetes.
Her…
Today marks the deadline for submissions to the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge — our annual diabetes/medical device design competition that fosters innovation with $25,000 in prizes!
As a reminder of what it’s all about, here’s our contest “poster”:
We are SO looking forward to another bevy of creativity this year!
Submissions accepted until midnight tonight Pacific Time.…
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of our fearless leader, AmyT.
In honor of this momentous occasion, I, her loyal assistant editor and Gal Friday, have taken over for the day to organize a special tribute to this fabulous woman, who has provided us with countless reports of late-breaking diabetes news and represented the patient community with candor, integrity and pizzazz. The DOC certainly wouldn’t be the same without her!
People often ask me…
Our new correspondent Wil Dubois takes on another test strip-related issue here — one that could effect the future of health care coverage for PWDs all over the country…
by D’Mine Correspondent William “Lee” Dubois
Along with the mystery of how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, is the mystery of how many test strips diabetic children need to stay safe. At least that’s what an obscure panel of…
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Today is annual Diabetes Alert Day — an important day, I suppose, for finding all those “hidden” type 2 diabetics out there who don’t yet know they have it — but for us already living with diabetes, a somewhat enigmatic campaign. Also, for those of us concerned with type 1 diabetes, today seems like an excellent day to do some advocating on the symptoms and risk factors for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes,…
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